By JOHN F. KILDUFF
Staff Writer
The Kingston Township Crime Watch (KTCW)
program received significant recognition during last
month’s Board of Supervisor’s meeting when the
board granted the program access to the township
meeting room.
The KTCW will be meeting at 8 p.m. in the meeting
room on the last Monday of each month. KTCW
coordinator Harold Shelly will preside at the meetings.
The first meeting will be held Monday, September 30
at 8 p.m. Coffee and donuts will be served.
“We are really pleased with the support the
township board of supervisors have given us,” said
Shelly. “They have essentially given us a blank check
for funding the project.”
According to Shelly, the KTCW program will be
implementing new projects within the community to
make businesses and residents feel more secure.
“We will be starting a new idea called Home
Surveys,” said Shelly. “With this project Kingston
Township police officers will actually go into a
person’s home and recommend how they could better
safe-guard their home from thieves. The police will
instruct homeowners on special locks for their doors,
lighting and just about anything else dealing with
home safety.”
The Home Survey project is made possible by the
committment Kingston Township police chief Paul
Sabol. Sabol has offered to have two of his full-time
officers trained in a crime prevention course, spon-
sored by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and
Delinquency.
“When the police officers are certified as ‘crime
prevention officers’ they will be available to speak at
various community functions about crime preven-
tion,”’ said Shelly.
Home Surveys, according to Shelly, have been used
throughout the United States as a means of crime
prevention. “Many communities have used this con-
cept and have used it very successfully,” explained
Shelly.
In addition to the Home Surveys, the KTCW project
will also implement a ‘business committee’’ in charge
of informing area businesses about safety tips and
techniques. Kingston Township police chief Paul Sabol
will be chairman of the business committee.
At present, the KTCW program has 15 active
members since its inception this past June. In addtion
to Shelly as coordinator, Janet Roberts of Shavertown
has been appointed to the position of Secretary. Jim
Wisnieski of Trucksville is the KTCW treasurer.
Shelly said he also wants area residents to know that
the KTCW program has six electric engravers availa-
ble to mark personal property. The project is called
“Operation I.D.” and Shelly hopes all Kingston
Township residents will take advantage of the service
which is free of charge.
“We would like as many people as possible to use it
(Operation 1.D.),” said Shelly. “Identifying you per-
sonal property with an engraver has proven to be
effective in cases I have read about. It makes it a
little easier to find stolen property.”
Shelly said he would like more residents of Kingston
Township to become involved with the KTCW pro-
gram. According to Shelly, a community needs at
least 30 percent of its population involved to be
effective.
“We need to get a township-wide program under-
way,” said Shelly. “We need neighborhood captains
from throughout the township in order to create a
positive program. We need everyone involved with
their community.”
Shelly said a major concern with the KTCW
program is keeping it in the minds of the residents.
Recognition and participation are the keys to a
successful program, according to Shelly.
“If we can stimulate community interest in the
KTCW program with these monthly meetings, we can
not stop there,’”’ Shelly said. ‘‘In order to be effective it
must be an on-going project.”
Shelly said he expects either Elmer Bradshaw, who
is chairman of the Luzerne County Crime Prevention
program or Lieutenant Robert Cookus of the Wilkes-
Barre police department, to speak at the September 30
meeting.
“For the most part, the meetings will be informal
and we look to get input from various areas of the
township,” said Shelly. ‘“We hope to recruit new
members and help each other keep up to date on what
is happening in the community.’
Congress
will fund
program
In a letter sent to Kingston Town-
ship manager Fred Potzer by Con-
gressman Paul Kanjorski, indica-
tions are that Congress will fully
fund the 1986 Federal Revenue
Sharing program before phasing out
the program in fiscal 1987.
Congressman Kanjorski indicated
tions Committee recently voted to
restore full funding for the revenue
sharing program in fiscal 1986. A
total of $4.567 billion has been allo-
cated for the program.
In July of this year, the House
approved funding for the program
at a 25 percent cut below the
amount approved by the Senate.
The amount would have been $3.425
billion.
Kanjorski said he was pleased
with the Senate’s decision to up the
alloted amount for 1986.
Kingston Township is slated to
lose over $74,000 in federal revenue
sharing funds when the program is
phased out in 1987. Kingston Town-
ship is expected to receive its reve-
nue sharing funds for this year’s
fourth quarter in early October.
Do you ever have to take care of
yourself after school or while your
parents are running an errand? Do
you have to watch a brother or
sister too? You know your parents
and I, McGruff, The Crime Dog,
want you to be safe. Taking care of
yourself is a big responsibility, but
you can handle it if you follow these
tips:
— Make sure you know how to
reach your parents where they work
and what to do in case of a fire or
other emergencies. Learn all the
local emergency phone numbers -
fire, police, hot-lines, poison control
center - and make sure they're
posted near all the phones in your
home.
— Be sure you know how to use
the telephone correctly - both push-
button and dial - and how to make
locak, long distance and emergency
calls, and how to get the operator.
— Check in with your mom or dad
or a trusted neighbor as soon as you
get home. Make sure you know how
to work the door and window locks
and lock the door after you come in.
— When you’re home along, never
open the door for anyone you don’t
know well or are unsure of. Check
the identity of service people by
calling their office before letting
callers know that you're alone.
— If you feel you're being fol-
lowed on your way home from
school, don’t go home-go to a store,
or back to school, or to the nearest
“Safe House.”
With your mom and dad, select a
place to keep a key or keys and:
money for lunch or emergency
phone calls.
— Never go anywhere with
another adult, even one who says he
or she has been sent by your par-
ents. You and your parents might
want to adopt a secret ‘‘code word”
as a signal if another adult has to
pick you up.
— If anything happens to you
while you're alone that makes you
feel uncomfortable, tell an adult you
trust. Always. Every time.
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Officers installed
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
Inmate dies
Terry L. Campbell Sr., 37, of RD
2, Harveys Lake, an inmate at the
Luzerne County Prison, died Sep-
tember 19 at NPW Medical Center,
Plains Township, shortly after
admission.
It has been reported that Camp-
bell, a diabetic, was suffering from
sugar shock prior to being trans-
ported from the prison to the medi-
cal center.
It has also been reported that
Campbell, who had been convicted
of theft and forgery, was in prison
after a parole violation.
City detective and the county cor-
oner’s office are investigating the
death.
Campbell was the son of Mrs.
Eleanor Turos and the late Lester
Campbell, Sr. Surviving, in addition
to his mother, are his son, Terry
Jr., Edwardsville; brother, Lester
Jr., Fernbrook; sisters, Mrs.
Audrey Jolley and Mrs. Joyce
Oeller, both of RD 2, Harveys Lake;
Miss Linda Turos, Mountaintop.
Funeral services were held Sep-
tember 23 from the Nulton Funeral
Home, Beaumont, with the Rev. Dr.
Charles E. Johns, pastor of the
Church of Christ Uniting, officiat-
ing. Interment, Woodlawn Ceme-
tery, Dallas.
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